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The ‘Mothers of Gynecology’ in Montgomery, Alabama, was dedicated on September 24, 2021 and created by Michelle Browder. This monument depicts Anarcha, Betsey, and Lucy, three real enslaved women who were operated on against their will by the ‘father…

The statue features two generic Union and Confederate soldiers standing back-to-back with a crouching enslaved child underneath them. This child is holding a pamphlet granting emancipation. The Union soldier holds a United States flag while the…

The Harriet Tubman National Historical Park is located in Auburn, New York, and offers visitors the opportunity to move around in and interact with a physical space featuring important sites in Tubman's life. The site – partly privately owned, partly…

The St Paul Soldiers and Sailors Monument honours United States veterans of the Civil War and their victories for the union and abolition of slavery. The statue depicts Josias R. King, said to be the first Minnesotan to volunteer to fight for the…

The Lawrence Sullivan Birthplace Marker remembers Civil War veteran, Lawrence Sullivan. Sullivan was born in Iowa and lived there for the first year of his life before moving with his family to Texas and eventually fighting for the Confederacy.…

This monument features a central pediment with the angel of liberty (dressed in a robe, carrying a shield in her right arm and a sword in her left) and two seated soldiers, one on the west side of the pedestal and the other on the east side. The West…

This monument features at its apex a Union soldier holding the barrel of a rifle (which is pointed downwards) with both hands. The soldier stands upon a pedestal accented with swag-drapery and two ribboned laurel crowns hanging on either side, under…
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